Cucumber – Crunchy yet Juicy

Which vegetable that is filling and still able to crunch
your thirst? On top of that still able
to you packs of goodness?

Cucumber is one of the most common vegetables for the east
and the west. It is can also be easily grown
at the backyard of a home. This plant
has shallow roots and just needs plenty of water especially when it is growing
fruits.

Since ancient times, cucumbers have been used as one of the
ingredients in traditional medicine in India.
It is known due to their antioxidant, antidiabetic and lipid-lowering
capability.

In every 100 grams (3.5 oz) of unpeel cucumber,
it contains a whopping 95% of water and various vitamins include B1, B2, B3,
B5, B6, B9, C, A and K. For minerals, it
contains iron, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, manganese, Fluoride, potassium
and zinc as well.

With the pack of nutrients available, cucumber is able to
bring us the benefits as below:

Cucumber and slices isolated over white background

1 . Keeps Your Body Hydrated – Beside
the nutrient listed above, cucumber also contains electrolytes and 95% of
water. You are able to get more juice
out of the vegetable and help to retain water in your body.

2 . Skin Care – with its
anti-inflammatory properties, it can help to relieve sunburn and skin
irritations. With the mix with lemon
juice and honey, it is said to be able to reverse tanning.

3 . Cure Acidity – because of the
content of some minerals, cucumber juice is naturally alkaline. Thus it has a cooling effect on our body and
able to sooth gastric ulcers.

4 . Relieves Bad Breath – by
holding a slice of cucumber on the roof of our mouth, within ½ a minute, it can
destroy most of the bacteria that cause the bad breath.

5 . Help removing body waste and dissolving
kidney and bladder stones – with its diuretic characteristic, it encourages
removal of waste through urination. Thus
help in dissolving of bladder and kidney stones.

6 . Prevent Hangovers – With the
vitamins Bs, electrolytes and some other nutrients, you can drink a can of
cucumber juice after a drinking party to prevent or at least minimize the next
day’s hangover effect.

7 . Help Prevent Alzheimer’s
disease – a research done in Salk Institute of Biological Studies, cucumber
contains a flavonol named fisetin that can prevent progressive learning and
memory impairments in the lab mice.

8 . Hair Care – It is said eating
cucumber can also stimulate hair growth.

9 . Fight Cancers – there are 3
lignans in cucumber – pinoresinol, lariciresinol and
secoisolariciresinol. They have strong
connection in reducing risk for several types of cancer – breast, ovarian,
uterine and prostate.

10 . Puffy Eyes – it has been
widely used to eliminate puffy eyes. You
just need to lie down and put a slice of cucumber on each eyes for 10 minutes.

11 . Reduces Cholesterol –
cucumber does not contain any cholesterol.
It may not help much by breaking down the bad cholesterol. At least it make your stomach has less space
for the high cholesterol junk food.

12 . Helps Reduce Stress – the
richness of vitamin B group will help to regulate our adrenal glands’ functions
and counter the bad stress effect on our body.

13 . Aids in Weight loss And
Digestion – with the capability of getting rid of body toxins, it may further
help in reducing body weight.

Pickled cucumber juice may be
tastier and may even has higher content of vitamin K, A and some of
mineral. But it comes high amount of
added sugar and salt. It is ok if you
have it once awhile for the taste. For
health, the choice should be cucumber juice.

There are many variety of
vegetable juices that mix with cucumber juice.
Please review further and make the most suitable choice for yourselves.